NUTRITION RESEARCH An International Publication for Nutrition to Advance Food and Life Research

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DESCRIPTION

. Nutrition Research publishes original research articles, communications, and reviews on basic and applied nutrition. The mission of Nutrition Research is to serve as the journal for global communication of nutrition and life sciences research on diet and health. The field of nutrition sciences includes, but is not limited to, the study of nutrients during growth, reproduction, aging, health, and disease.

Original research articles must declare a research hypothesis and include aspects of mechanisms. Reviews are open to systematic reviews and meta-analyses but the review must provide a critical analysis of existing nutrition evidence, identify gaps in knowledge, and include recommendations for future research. Communications are limited in length and preliminary data that addresses a potential mechanism is acceptable. Authors are encouraged to read and follow the Guide for Authors and Author Submission Checklist.

Articles covering basic and applied research on all aspects of nutrition sciences are encouraged, including: nutritional biochemistry and metabolism; metabolomics, nutrient gene interactions; nutrient requirements for health; nutrition and disease; digestion and absorption; nutritional anthropology; epidemiology; the influence of socioeconomic and cultural factors on nutrition of the individual and the community; the impact of nutrient intake on disease response and behavior; the consequences of nutritional deficiency on growth and development, endocrine and nervous systems, and immunity; nutrition and gut microbiota; food intolerance and allergy; nutrient drug interactions; nutrition and aging; nutrition and cancer; obesity; diabetes; and intervention programs.

Another focus of the Journal is to publish research that advances the understanding of nutrients and health protectants in food for improving the human condition. Of interest are manuscripts on the development of biomarkers for assessing how dietary components influence health status in the human. A further publishing goal of Nutrition Research is to bridge the gap between clinicians working in nutrition and health and biomedical scientists engaged in areas of biochemistry and molecular and cell biology to improve health. Investigators doing research in these areas are urged to submit articles.

The Journal also encourages submission of manuscripts describing investigations in animal models and cell cultures that utilize methodologic approaches or techniques in biochemistry, immunology, molecular biology, toxicology, and physiology. Such investigations must include clear research objectives for hypothesis testing and elucidating mechanisms. Nutrient intakes in human populations and novel analytical techniques for bioactive compounds are within the scope of the mission for Nutrition Research.

AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www..com/locate/nutres 1 Nutrition Research is the sponsor for the David Kritchevsky Graduate Student Award, which recognizes graduate and professional students that publish outstanding articles in the Journal. Two awards are presented annually, with a US $1,000 stipend presented to the recipient young scientists.Use of human subjects should include information about the subjects such as registered with clinicaltrials.gov. Please refer to https://clinicaltrials.gov/.Use of first person language should be used with regard to people with obesity. Please refer to https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/108/1/201/5049689.All animal studies that utilize dietary treatments must provide a table listing the ingredients in g/kg to total 1000. Please refer to the editorial https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271531719302441.

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AUDIENCE

. Nutrition Scientists, Dietitians, Physicians, Biochemists, Epidemiologists.

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ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING

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EDITORIAL BOARD

. Editor-in-Chief Richard S. Bruno, The Ohio State University, Human Nutrition Program, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America Managing Editor Joanna K. Hodges, The Ohio State University, Human Nutrition Program, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America Associate Editors Bradley W. Bolling, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Food Science, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America Philip Calder, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, United Kingdom Anitra C. Carr, University of Otago Christchurch Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, Christchurch, New Zealand Jimmy W. Crott, Tufts University Vitamins & Carcinogenesis Team, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America John Alexander Dawson, Texas Tech University, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America Hannah D. Holscher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America Sarah A. Johnson, Colorado State University Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/nutres 2 Huijun Wang, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing, China Editorial Board Members G. Harvey Anderson, University of Toronto, Department of Nutritional Sciences and Physiology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Donald Beitz, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America Jennie Brand-Miller, The University of Sydney School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Camperdown, Australia Gemma Casadesus Smith, University of Florida Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America Wendy Dahl, University of Florida Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America Adrian F. Gombart, Oregon State University Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America Mario G. Ferruzzi, North Carolina State University Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America Emma Foster, Newcastle University Human Nutrition Research Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Philippe G. Frank , Nutrition Growth and Cancer, Tours, France William S. Harris, University of South Dakota, Department of Internal Medicine, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America Kate Huggins, Monash University School of Medicine, Clayton, Australia Amanda B. Hummon, The Ohio State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America Catherine Itsiopoulos, La Trobe University School of Allied Health Human Services and Sport, Bundoora, Australia Darshan S. Kelley, USDA-ARS, Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Immunity and Disease Prevention Research, Davis, California, United States of America Jennifer Kerns, Washington DC VA Medical Center Hospitalist Section, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America Marlena Kruger, Massey University School of Health Sciences, Palmerston North, New Zealand Christel Lamberg-Allardt, University of Helsinki Department of Food and Nutrition, Helsinki, Finland Joshua D. Lambert, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Food Science, , United States of America Alessandro Laviano, University of Rome La Sapienza Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Rome, Italy Yunsook Lim, Kyung Hee University Department of Food and Nutrition, Seoul, South Korea David Ma, University of Guelph Department of Human Health & Nutritional Sciences, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Kenneth N. Maclean, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America Maria L. Marco, University of California Davis Department of Food Science and Technology, Davis, California, United States of America Denis M. Medeiros, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America Nancy E. Moran, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, Houston, Texas, United States of America Andrew P. Neilson, North Carolina State University Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America John W. Newman, USDA-ARS Obesity and Metabolism Research, Davis, California, United States of America Nora O'Brien, University College Cork School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Cork, Ireland Aifric O'Sullivan, University College Dublin School of Agriculture and Food Science, Dublin, Ireland Hea Jin Park, University of Georgia Department of Foods and Nutrition, Athens, Georgia, United States of America Jung Han Yoon Park, Hallym University, Department of Food, Science and Nutrition, Chuncheon, South Korea Yongsoon Park, Hanyang University Department of Food and Nutrition, Seongdong-gu, South Korea Maren C. Podszun, University of Hohenheim Department of Food Biofunctionality, Stuttgart, Germany Kristina Rother, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America Robert B. Rucker, University of California Davis Department of Nutrition, Davis, California, United States of America Satoshi Sasaki, The University of Tokyo Department of Social and Preventive Epidemiology, Tokyo, Japan Chwan-Li (Leslie) Shen, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America Vivian M.M. Suen, Sao Paulo University Department of Clinical Medicine, SAO PAULO, Brazil Susanne U. Talcott, Texas A&M University Department of Nutrition and Food Science, College Station, Texas, United States of America Stella L. Volpe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Department of Human Nutrition Foods and Exercise, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America Mark Wahlqvist, Monash University, Australia and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Caulfield East Australia

AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/nutres 3 Hope A. Weiler, Health Canada Health Products and Food Branch, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Dayong Wu, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging Nutritional Immunology Team, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America Angela Zivkovic, University of California Davis Department of Nutrition, Davis, California, United States of America

AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/nutres 4 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS

. INTRODUCTION Nutrition Research publishes research articles, communications, and reviews on all aspects of basic and applied nutrition. The mission of Nutrition Research is to serve as the journal for global communication of nutrition and life sciences research on diet and health. The field of nutritional sciences includes, but is not limited to, the study of nutrients during growth, reproduction, aging, and disease.

Articles covering basic and applied research on all aspects of nutritional sciences are encouraged, including: nutritional biochemistry and metabolism; metabolomics, nutrient and gene interactions; nutrient requirements in health and disease; digestion and absorption; nutritional anthropology and epidemiology; the influence of socioeconomic and cultural factors on nutrition of the individual and the community; the impact of nutrient intake on disease response, work performance and behavior; the consequences of nutritional deficiency on growth and development, endocrine and nervous systems, and immunity; food intolerance and allergy; nutrient drug interactions; nutrition and aging; nutrition and cancer; obesity; diabetes; and intervention programs.

A principal focus of the journal is to publish research that advances the understanding of nutrients and health protectants in food for improving the human condition. Of interest are manuscripts on the development of biomarkers for assessing how dietary components influence health status in the human.

The journal also encourages submission of manuscripts describing investigations in animal models and cell cultures that utilize methodologic approaches or techniques in biochemistry, immunology, molecular biology, toxicology, and physiology. Epidemiologic studies on nutrient and phytochemical intakes in human populations and novel analytical techniques for these compounds are within the scope of the mission for Nutrition Research. Richard Bruno, PhD, RD, Editor-in-Chief ([email protected]) Joanna Hodges, PhD, Managing Editor ([email protected]) Nutrition Research Editorial Office The Ohio State University Human Nutrition Program 1787 Neil Ave, 325 Campbell Hall Columbus, OH 43017 USA BEFORE YOU BEGIN Submission Checklist Ethics in publishing Please see our information on Ethics in publishing. Nutrition Research has a policy to follow all aspects of publication ethics and depends on the authors of submitted manuscripts to provide complete information on conflict of interests for the execution of research and data collection. The editorial office and publishers of Nutrition Research rely on the authors and their respective institutions to follow the policies to preserve scientific integrity in research and support publication ethics. For information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see https://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and https://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/ethics. Informed consent and patient details Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in the paper. Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained where an author wishes to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and any other individuals in an Elsevier publication. Written consents must be retained by the author but copies should not be provided to the journal. Only if specifically requested by the journal in exceptional circumstances (for example if a legal issue arises) the author must provide copies of the consents or evidence that such consents have been obtained. For more information, please review the Elsevier Policy on the Use of Images or Personal Information of Patients or other Individuals. Unless

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* All studies that include experimental diets must provide a table that lists the ingredients and enough detail for the nutrient content of those diets. Reference to established diets (such as AIN 93G) is appropriate when the major ingredients are listed and the premix levels are provided (actual details of each vitamin and mineral source listed is not necessary in this case). Diets that are developed with different lipid sources should provide a fatty acid compositional analysis of the lipids. In addition, studies that test a botanical or phytochemical ingredient should provide enough chemical compositional analysis as well as the amount of the active compounds. References Citation in text Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication. Reference links Increased discoverability of research and high quality peer review are ensured by online links to the sources cited. In order to allow us to create links to abstracting and indexing services, such as Scopus, CrossRef and PubMed, please ensure that data provided in the references are correct. Please note that incorrect surnames, journal/book titles, publication year and pagination may prevent link creation. When copying references, please be careful as they may already contain errors. Use of the DOI is highly encouraged.

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